Restaurant suggestions in Long Beach

Okay, LB people, I need some help.

I'm looking for restaurants in the Long Beach area. I'd like to avoid chain restaurants, greasy spoons, and places serving "glop".

I like many kinds of cuisine, but tend to prefer things that are creative and interesting and prepared with care. Any kind of interesting places that do nice salads or healthy  (or organic) or a stuff would be nice. So would a tapas/appetizer kind of place that has small portions (with prices adjusted accordingly) or a "farm to table" kind of restaurant where they shop at farmer's markets. Also open to Asian cuisines (Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian, etc), but again, prefer that they not be "gloppy" kinds of places.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have!



 

Open Sesame on 2nd Street, light middle eastern fare...love the chicken shwarma!

George's Greek Cafe on Pine and on 2nd Street as well...

There is a lot of Thai and other Asian food availble in LB, none I can think of off hand though.

 Go to www.yelp.com and enter in Long Beach...you'll find tons of recommendations. 

 

Hey Monica,

Thanks for the recs. I actually had checked out both yelp.com and citysearch.com and it was kind of hard to tell...I saw George's Greek  Cafe on there but  I wanted to see if some post-ops in the area had any suggestions. So I can now check out yelp with a little more confidence than I had compared to when I did it yesterday.

See you Sat,

Cindy

One of my favorite restaurants in Long Beach is Cafe Piccolo. 

It's Italian -  but not spaghetti & meatballs Italian.  Google it.

- Patty

For Italian you got to try La Parolaccia on Broadway (nearest cross street is Redondo) They just added a new section with pizza ovens and they make a really good thin crust pizza.

My favorite place for Asian/California/ just so good is Tantalum in Marina Pacifica. I just love their Tuna Tartar Tower . It's tucked away behind Acapulco. Two places on Pine do good tapas, Sevilla and Alegria. And I love Open Sesame too; Monica has good taste!

You could probably get bunches of other good ideas at the Long Beach coffeehouse tomorrow. We meet at Starbucks at Bellflower and Spring (Lowe's is there) at 10 AM.

nancy

Yeah, I'm planning on coming tomorrow to LB Coffee--I always look forward to it. Nancy, I am not sure if we've met previously (hard to tell from your avatar photo) but I sure will look forward to meeting (Or re-meeting) you tomorrow.

Thanks for the recs!

Your message brought back so many memories for me.  I was born and raised in Long Beach and my family owned a restraunt there.  Right where the mall used to be.  lol.  So I could tell you Dean's cafe is the best but it is no longer there.  I have not lived there since 1987 and just recently went back there and none of my favorite restraunts are still there.  I used to Love French food and my favorite place on Broadway was gone that was the sadest, but I could not eat there anyways now.  I am sure the suggestions these ladies gave you are going to be great as us surgery gals know our food.  Good luck and send us your review of what ever place you choose.

Rhonda